Law Books Are the Leading Subject in Venetian Publishing

"For their commercial value, prestige, and simple quantity, law books eclipsed all other fields of Venetian publishing [in the 15th and early 16th centuries" (translated from Nouvo, Il commercio librario nell'Italia del Rinascimento [1998] p. 161 in Magno, Bound in Venice. The Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book [2013] 20).